Back in April, I promised you all a blog update. Well, it was going to happen, and then lots happened...

To recap, in April, I was invited to go on the most amazing training camp with the ‘Trail Ferrets’.

Trail Ferret is based in North Devon, the perfect spot for endurance training or just running on trails.The head of the Ferrets, calls himself ‘Papa Ferret’ and has ample experience to draw upon (no, he is not really old), he is just an excellent coach.

I would’ve liked to stay for all the days of the camp, but on 1st May every year, I have a tradition where I walk my birthday years in miles. I used to run my age every year, but then when I had my accident in December 2008, I had only just started to walk again by March the following year, so I was not able. Instead, a friend trained to run the miles for me, he had never run before, and this was an incredible gesture, one I will never forget. The year after that I walked it with another friend, and now the walk has ‘stuck’.I left the camp the eve of my birthday to go back to Cornwall for my walk the next day. I was sorry to leave as I really had a great time and met some amazing people and the running routes were beautiful as well as challenging.

This is just part of one of the routes....

Morte Point in North Devon

I left one of the members of the group, Paul Radford,with a challenge before I left. It was to run up the hill besides the funicular railway, instead of 'cheating' like the others were intending as part of the run for that day (I can hear them all protesting now that they weren't cheating, but my argument is, why practise hill reps, if you never run the hills?!).

Everyone waiting to catch the train on the Funicular railway - Paul was running it!